Visible along with the Base are the USS Mckee AS-41, USS Dixon AS-37, the floating drydock (ARD) and several submarines.

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USSHaddo (SSN-604), a Permit-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the haddo, a pink salmon fish prevalent on the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada.

The contract to build her was awarded to New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey on 3 March 1959 and her keel was laid down on 9 September 1960.

Haddo was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 June 1991.

The USS Plunger SSN-595 was the third of what came to be known as the world's "first modern, quiet, deep-diving fast attack submarines, "integrating such advanced features as a hydrodynamically shaped hull, a large bow-mounted sonar array, advanced sound-silencing features, and an integrated control/attack center with the proven S5W reactor plant.

Armament: 4 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes USS Jack (SSN-605), a Permit class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the jack, any young pike, green pike or pickerel, or large California rockfish.

The contract to build her was awarded to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire on 13 March 1959 and her keel was laid down on 16 September 1960.

The fall of '77 while on a SpecOp on the USS Flasher (SSN 613), a fellow "Rider", R-brancher named Gerald Kenyon, shows up for the ride with a brand new belt buckle with dolphins affixed.

During one of my memorable USSHaddo runs, once we had started our journey and were doing the normal Receiver Stack checks in the EandE spaces, ESMA up and running hot as ever, I was working with CTT2 Joe (PEPE) Serna or "LIPS" for short.

A powerful weapon, the USS Guardfish has a hull length of 279 feet, with four 21" torpedo tubes forward.

The Ship Model Masters of Raven Arts are the west coast's premier custom modeling service located west of Seattle, WA Permit Class Attack Submarine Models such as this one of the USS Guardfish SSN 612 Nuclear Submarine.

He began his submarine service aboard the diesel submarine, USS TRIGGER (SS 564) in 1959.

He later served on USSHADDO (SSN604); was the Executive Officer on USS SIMON BOLIVAR (SSBN 641)(B); and, in 1972, became Commanding Officer of the USS PUFFER (SSN 652), operating out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

From 1976 to 1979 he was Commander of Submarine Squadron TEN in New London, Conn., and from 1986 to 1988, he served as Commander of the Atlantic Fleet's Submarine Force.

One of the PERMIT - class nuclear-powered attack submarines, the USSHADDO was the second ship in the Navy to bear the name of the pink salmon fish prevalent on the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada.

Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on June 12, 1991, the USSHADDO subsequently entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash. Recycling was completed on June 30, 1992.

This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USSHADDO.

Supplementing the section on USS Miami -- the boat Clancy and Gresham closely examine -- is a section devoted to the Royal Navy's smaller but still-impressive nuclear sub force.

His comments may raise eyebrows among some American readers unaccustomed to even constructive criticism of the U.S. Navy, but at least Clancy is honest and doesn't shy away from speaking his mind about a branch of our military that he is otherwise very fond of.

The new edition leaves the original text as it appeared in 1993: there are no updates on the featured officers (namely, the skippers and execs of USS Miami and HMS Triumph) and their subsequent careers.